Thursday Thirteen #91
I'm stocking up on short fiction for the Read-a-thon on June 28. These are just a few that I have on the shelf right now. The last two are loaned by my niece, the rest are library books. There are more on the way from the library so I may not resist the temptation overcoming me as I handle the books while making this list to go ahead and start one.
Ummm. It is not that I expect to read thirteen or more books in 24 hours. I just like choices. Besides, I feel a fiction binge coming on. And since I struggled so hard with a long, complex novel recently I am going to treat myself to stories I can read in a day or two for awhile and the day of the Read-a-thon I am dedicating to fiction.
Thursday
Thirteen
1. Keeper and Kid by Edward Hardy--294p
2. The Dangerous Age by Annette Williams Jaffee--171p
3. The White Castle by Orhan Pamuk--161p Recent Nobel Prize for Lit winner.
4. Missing Sisters by Gregory Maguire--151p A children's chapter book by the author of Wicked and Son of a Witch
5. Mr. Spaceman by Robert Olen Butler--223
6. Pay it Forward by Catherine Ryan Hyde--288p Yes, the movie starring Haley Joel Osment was based on this novel.
7. Earthquake Weather by Catherine Ryan Hyde--230p
8. Incantation by Alice Hoffman--166p
9. Foretelling by Alice Hoffman--167p
10. The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman--211p
11. Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman--244p The book came before the movie! This will be a re-read for me which is quite rare for me and I may not actually re-read it. I think I was bit by nostalgia for the enchantment of the first reading when I sent for it.
12. Seven Tears Into the Sea by Terri Farley--279p Loaned to me by my 14 year old niece who has been begging me to read it for over a year.
13. Impulse by Elen Hopkins--666p A novel in verse. Also loaned to me by my niece about a year ago. And like The Historian, I started it once last fall and got distracted. Thanks to my niece I've read two other of Hopkins' verse novels: Crank and Burned. See my post about Hopkins' work here.
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I have never heard of any of those books. I just finished reading "The Pillars of the Earth." It was really good!
Alice Hoffman's a great choice for this sort of thing. Easy to read in that it's pleasant and relatively effortless, but you get a great experience in terms of plot and characters.
Good luck with it! You know I'll be lurking!
I'll take your recommendations with Susan's and give this author a try!
Alice Hoffman is a great choice! You can't go wrong there! What is the Read-a-thon FOR?
Hmmm...I don't suppose I've ever read any of those. I own The Historian, but have yet to begin.
So many books, so little time!
Oh boy. That's a lot of reading you have planned. Looks like you're well stocked for the read-a-thon. I haven't read any fun fiction in awhile. It's about time.
White Castle is awesome. At least I thought so.
My 13 is posted, come join me?
Happy Thursday.
I remember enjoying Pay it Forward
Good luck on the Read-A-Thon. It sounds like you have some fun and interesting books ready to go.
Happy TT!
Good luck that sounds fun
Great list, mine is up at Top 13 Boys Names for 2007
I can't tell you how pleased I am that you pimped the readathon to the gigantic TT crowd! :)
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